1839.] BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HACKNEY THEOL. SEMINARY, England. 67

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HACKNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ENGLAND.

A SOCIETY called the "Village Itinerary Society," originated about the month of May, 1791, in the united efforts of the late Rev. John Eyre, M. A. of Hackney, and his Christian friends, Mrs. Mather, Edward Hanson, Esq., and Mr. David Whitaker, with a view of spreading the knowledge of the gospel, by preaching, and other scriptural means of instruction. Providence pointed out to them the destitute condition of some villages and towns in Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex, and there they began their operations. In 1801, the late Charles Townsend, Esq., joined this little band; and about the month of October, 1802, the late Mr. Eyre conferred with Mr. Collison about the plan of a Theological Seminary, for imparting preparatory instruction to pious candidates for the Christian ministry, and to give the Village Itineracy a more extended field of operation in different parts of the kingdom. In the first three months of 1803, three of the principal agents in the plan were removed by death, Messrs. Hanson, Townsend and Eyre. Mr. Townsend bequeathed £10,000 to the object. Soon after, Joseph Hardcastle, Esq., was chosen Treasurer, and Rev. Matthew Wilks, Secretary and Superintendent. The legacy was paid and invested, and the Theological Seminary commenced operations in 1803.

The Rev. George Collison is, at the present time, theological tutor, and the Rev. Samuel Ransom, classical tutor. The number of students is from 12 to 20. The studies are classical, biblical and theological. A committee of 26 gentlemen, chosen annually, manage the concerns of the Society. The following is the list of ministers educated at the Seminary up to the year 1836, with the places of their labor. Those individuals, against whose names is the following mark, * are dead.

Harsant, John, Beaconsfield, Bucks.
Hayden, William, Frodingham, Yorks.
Haymes, W., Surrey, Mission.

Hayter, Benjamin, Ingatestone, Essex.

Heath, Thomas, Missionary, South Seas.
Hellings, Nicholas, Devon.

Hicks, Thomas, Cottingham, Yorks.

Hobbs, George, Cornwall.

Howe, James, Missionary, Berbice.

Ivey, Robert, Yorks.

Jenkin,

*Jones,

Cranbrooke, Kent.

Jones, Absalom, Portsea.

Jones, John, Anglesey.

Kent, Benjamin, Barnstable, Devon.
Little, Samuel, Mere, Wilts.

Locke, John, Hunts.

Maitland, W., Church of England.

Mays, Thomas, Fordham, Cambridgeshire.
Miall, G. A.

Moase, John, America.
Moreland, John, Milton.

Moore, B., Boxford, Sussex.

Moore, Francis, London.
*Mortimer,

Mumford, Thomas, London.

Mummery, Stephen, Middlesex.

Muscutt, Edward, Brentford.

*Muscutt, James, Cockermouth, Cumberland.

Muscutt, Thomas, E. Berghott, Suffolk.

Neath, E., London.

Newton, E., Cuckfield, Sussex.

Nicholl, W., Surrey Mission.

Oram, William, Benson, Oxfordshire.

*Parrott, Samuel, Devenport.

Pawling, Henry, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex.

Pearson, John, Yorks.

Penhall, Samson, Codford, Wilts.

*Perks, Isaac

Phillips, Isaac, Staplehurst.

Pinn, W., Herefordshire.

Porter, T., Kilsby, Northamptonshire. *Potter, Wm.

Raban. Samuel, Marden, Kent.

Radcliffe, W., Bucks.

Ransom, Joseph, Canada.

Ransom, Samuel, tutor, Hackney.

Reed, Andrew, D. D., Hackney, London.
Reeve, E., Shropshire.

Richards, J. E., Wandsworth, Surrey.
Roberts, James, America.
Rooke, H. J., Feversham, Kent.
Russ, E., Dorset.

Seaton, William, Church of England.
Scott, John, Sidbury, Devon.
Seaborn, Hugh, Whitstable.
Shawyer, Andrew, Bridlington.

Skeat, Isaac, Lostwithiel.

Stagg,

Skinner, W., Broughton, Wilts.

Slater, Martin, Wotten Bassett, Wilts.
Smith, John, Linfield, Sussex.
Tayler, Richard, Swanzea.

Thorn, William, Winchester.
Tidman, Arthur, London.
Timpson, Thomas, Lewisham.
Vine, Samuel, Miss., Jamaica.

*Violet, Edmunds, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
Walton, William, Cumberland.

Ward, -, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
Wastell, W. P., Hackney.

Wells, John, Somersetshire.

West, John, Barking, Essex.

Widgery, J. W., Surrey Mission.
Wilks, Mark, Paris.

Wooley, William, Oxfordshire.

SKETCH OF THE BRISTOL ACADEMY, ENGLAND.

A FOUNDATION for a Baptist Academy was laid at Bristol, near the close of the seventeenth century, by Mr. Edward Terrill. It was commenced on a small scale, and was conducted with considerable success for many years by the learned and pious Mr. Foskett. In 1770, an institution, called the 'Baptist Education Society,' was formed in aid of the academy. In 1793, a capital of £1,700 had been secured. Noble bequests in books and money were also made by the Rev. Dr. Gifford, Dr. Llewellyn, and alderman Bull. The society, from its commencement, has been supported by annual subscriptions, donations and bequests, and it has been the principal means of supplying the Baptist churches in general, with a succession of pious and useful ministers. About 1817, a building was erected, calculated to accommodate thirty-three students. The studies embraced some of the principal Latin and Greek classics, various branches of Mathematics, Hebrew, Greek Testament, Chaldee, Syriac, Rhetoric, Theology, and the composition of sermons. We observe Prof. Stuart's Chrestomathy among the text-books. The principal instructors have been, the Rev. Drs. Caleb Evans, John Rippon and John Ryland, Rev. Robert Hall, (the son,) and William Anderson. The president of the academy at the present time is Rev. T. S. Crisp; classical and mathematical tutor, Mr. Edgar Huxtable. very respectable library and museum have been collected. Among those who have preached the annual sermons, we observe the names of Rev. Dr. Caleb Evans, John Ash, Samuel Stennett, John Rippon, John Ryland, F. A. Cox, William Newman, William Steadman and James Hoby, Rev. Robert Robinson, Robert Hall, senior and junior, Isaiah Birt, John Sutcliff, Andrew Fuller, Joseph Kinghorn, John Foster, J. K. Hall, Joseph Hughes, William Anderson and John

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The following ministers have been educated at this academy. The ministers thus marked * are deceased.

Acworth, James, M. A., President of the Baptist
Academy, Bradford, Yorkshire.

Adams, Samuel, Walgrave, Northamptonshire.

Birt, Caleb Evans, M. A., Portsea.
Birt, Isaiah M, A., Hackney.

Blackmore, Edward, Kington, Herefordshire.
Bottomley, William, Middleton Cheney, Norths.
Bunce, J. S., Devizes.

*Anderson, Wm., late Classical and Mathematical Burchell, Thomas, Missionary, Jamaica.

Aitchison, Robert, Bratton.

Amory, Eli, Collumpton.

Tutor in the Academy, Bristol.

*Ash, John, LL. D., Pershore.

*Atkinson, George, Margate.

Aveline, George, Loughborough.

Bayne, Robert, late at St. Austel.

Burchell, W. F., Falmouth.

*Burton, Richard, Missionary, Digah.

Baynes, Joseph, Wellington, Somerset.

*Beddome, Benjamin, M. A., Bourton-on-the-Water.

Belsher, William, Greenwich.

*Bicheno, James, M.A., Newbury, Berks. *Biggs, James, Devizes.

Capern, Henry, Long Buckby.

Carey, Eustace, London.

*Chamberlain, John, Missionary, East Indies.
Chapman, J. M., Yeovil.

*Chater, James, Missionary, Columbo.
Clarke, Robert, Bridgenorth.
Claypole, Edward, Ross.

Clowes, Francis, Bristol.

*Evans, Hugh, M. A., late President of the Baptist Souter, David, M. A., Aberdeen.

*Hughes, Joseph, M. A., Battersea, late Secretary to White, Daniel, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

[The statistics respecting Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, were prepared by the Rev. CALVIN BUTLER, of Heath, Ms.; and those respecting Vermont were prepared by Mr. JAMES D. BUTLER, of the Theological Seminary, Andover.]

In the following tables there will be observed a little discrepancy of numbers, owing to inaccuracy in the catalogues of the colleges, or to deficiency in other sources of information on which reliance was placed: e. g. in the catalogue of Yale College, the residence of one student is said to be Weymouth, and as no State is named, Connecticut is implied; but there is neither town nor postoffice known to be in the State of that name. So Clinton appears in the same catalogue, and in the same circumstances.

The population of New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, is according to the census taken in 1830; that of Maine and Massachusetts is according to a census taken in 1837. Though the population of these States is reckoned at different times, still the comparative proportions is probably not far from being correct, as the population of Maine and Massachusetts increases much faster than that of the other New England States.

ΜΑΙΝΕ.

Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Me., was established in 1794, when the State, (then District,) contained about 120,000 inhabitants. It did not immediately go into operation, but its first president was appointed in 1802, and its first class graduated in 1806. In ten years it graduated 74 students; in twenty years, 263; and its whole number of graduates at the present time is 625. Its average annual number of graduates, for the last ten years, is 28.

Waterville College, at Waterville, Me., was established in 1820, went immediately into operation, and graduated its first class in 1822. In ten years it graduated 70, and its whole number of graduates now, is 145.

TABLE,

Showing the number of Students in the Colleges of Maine; and the States of their residence.

These students belong to the several classes as follows:

:

TABLE,

Showing the number of Students in College from the several Counties of Maine.

Cumberland,

York,

Oxford,

Somerset,

Kennebec,

Lincoln,

Waldo,

Hancock,

Washington,

Penobscot,

There are doubtless reasons, found in the settlement of many parts of the State, why there are so few young men in college that belong to this State. It appears from the preceding,

1st. That no county has so many students, as one to a thousand people; and only three counties that have so many as one student to 3,000 people.

2d. That these three counties, with 172,959 inhabitants, are educating 94 students in college, which is one to 1,840 people. This ratio would give the State 258 students. But would this be enough for the great and growing State of Maine ?

3d. If all the counties should have as great a proportion of students as Cumberland county, their numbers would stand thus:

And are we to think that Cumberland county is doing all for liberal education that ought to be done? Are forty-five students enough for 67,000 people to educate? If there are, on the average, six individuals to a family in the county, then there is but one student to 250 families. May the time soon come when in this State a much greater number of young men will perseveringly seek and obtain a liberal education.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

[The reader is referred, for some statements, to page 362-3 of the tenth volume of the American Quarterly Register, where an article on this subject will be found.]

The number of students in Dartmouth College, according to the last catalogue, is, Senior, 61; Junior, 56; Sophomore, 83; Freshmen, 101; Total, 301. They belong to different States: New Hampshire, 183; Massachusetts, 58; Vermont, 33; Maine, 12; Connecticut, 1; New York, 8; Pennsylvania, 2; Georgia, 2; Tennessee, 1; Canada, 1.